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Palpatine's treacherous act would have caught me as unaware as it had so many others, if not for a prearranged warning triggered by the death of my master, Mace Windu. But even with this costly warning, escaping Jedi Headquarters will require all my skills and training.
In an ever-shifting world a new order shall rise. The economy shall thrive and the people's work and routine shall not be compromised. Ruling with an iron fist, our allies will know mutual cooperation and our enemies shall know true fear in the face of mighty firepower and resolve. We shall suffer no fools, and put our country's needs before any international organizations, for that is true power and the way to prosper without the world on our shoulders (keep it goin' US & Japan you both are in better positions then you were 4 years ago)
This is a comical shot, this is definitely what Japan's highest legislative council is like and I will not be convinced otherwise. It looks like it shouldn't exist, but it does. And believe it or not, I finally have something to talk about concerning Fushimi Inari for the first time in a long while. There's a pathway out of the mountain and down the north side to the entrance. There aren't many toriis down this path but there was a handful of more unique subjects to shoot, this being one of the better examples. There was an overhang casting a shadow over the back rows. It kinda looks like a 70s fantasy production set.
Thankfully, the lower highlights made it a lot easier to edit the subjects which did have the light it needed. After giving nearly every fox (or cat I'm not sure) a different level of clarity I drained the textures on the walls in the back and gave the torii more light but not enough to make it stand out. For how silly the concept of this shot is, it surprisingly works really well and I don't know why, it's got all the components of a more professional shot.
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Not all signs of spring are loud or dramatic. Some are quietly… well organized.
This fourth image from my walk in Parco Talenti caught my attention for its almost geometric rhythm: a row of trees standing in line, each one fully dressed in fresh green, as if they had collectively agreed that winter was officially over.
I liked the contrast between this sense of order and the more spontaneous scenes earlier in the walk. Even in nature, it seems, there’s room for both improvisation and structure.
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Non tutti i segnali della primavera sono vistosi o teatrali. Alcuni sono semplicemente… ben organizzati.
Questa quarta immagine della passeggiata a Parco Talenti mi ha colpito per il suo ritmo quasi geometrico: una fila di alberi ordinati, tutti vestiti di un verde nuovo, come se avessero deciso insieme che l’inverno fosse ufficialmente finito.
Mi è piaciuto il contrasto tra questo senso di ordine e le scene più spontanee viste poco prima. Anche in natura, a quanto pare, c’è spazio sia per l’improvvisazione che per la struttura.
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Inside the courtyard of Barcelona Cathedral we unexpectedly came across the geese that live there. Catedral de Barcelona. Designed by Antoni Gaudi.
Namtso is one of the three holy lakes in Tibet and significant for Tibetan Buddhists. Kora is a Tibetan word that means "circumambulation" or "revolution". Kora is both a type of pilgrimage and a type of meditative practice in the Tibetan Buddhism. Thus, Namtso Kora means pilgrimage walk around the Lake Namtso.
Namtso literally means heavenly lake in Tibetan language. Located around 240km northwest of Lhasa, capital of Tibet, it takes four hours’ driving from Lhasa. Extending 70 km from east to west and 30 km from south to north, the lake covers an area of 1,920 sq km and has an altitude of 4748 m above sea level. It is biggest lake in Tibet and the second biggest salt lake in China as well as one of the highest lakes in the world. The water in the lake is crystally clear and blue. The blue sky joins the surface of the lake in the distance, creating an integrated, scenic vista.
In every Tibetan year of sheep, thousands of Tibetan Buddhism believers will come here to worship this sacred lake. As a rule, they will walk clockwise along the Namtso Lake in order to receive the blessing of the gods.
There are several fine Tibet treks around the lake. The shortest one is roughly 4 kilometers and takes less than one hour. It starts from the accommodation area to a hermit’s cave hidden behind a large spinter of rock. The kora continues to a rocky promontory of cairns and prayer flags. At the promontory, pilgrims undertake a ritural washing in the lake. And then the trail continues past several caves and a prostration point where there are two rock towers looking like two hands. Pilgrims squeeze into the deep slices of the nearby cliff face as a means of sin detection or drink water dripping from cave roofs, even swallow holy dirt.
"A little roughhousing amongst siblings."
The Urban Fox
Wild foxes have learned to adapt to the urban environment in order to survive. By nature, foxes are nocturnal and hunt at night, whereas the urban fox has adapted its behavior to survive and can be seen during daylight hours.
Locally, a fox vixen has located her den in the foundational remains of a razed building complex along the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore. She has six Kits, which can be seen frolicking in the debris and along the dunes during the day. The fox family has become local celebrities and unfortunately people have begun feeding them. Never feed wild animals. Although you may feel as if you’re helping them survive, you are actually harming them. Feeding foxes can alter their natural behavior and they may lose its fear of humans.
“Wildlife that is fed by people become less experienced at forging for their natural food and may become dependent on handouts that are not a part of their natural diets. This is especially true in juvenile animals that have not yet developed their own foraging skills and have little ability to fend for themselves once handouts cease.” ~ Julie King, Senior Wildlife Biologist
Please Do Not Feed the Wildlife!
Red Fox
The Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes, is the largest of the true foxes and the most abundant wild member of the Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, North America and Eurasia. It is listed as least concern by the IUCN. Its range has increased alongside human expansion, having been introduced to Australia, where it is considered harmful to native mammals and bird populations. Due to its presence in Australia, it is included among the list of the "world's 100 worst invasive species".
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox
... in order to see the Sun after 6 month again here at the South Pole. So a good way to wait for the rising Sun is to take a chair and watch it coming up like here behind the IceCube Lab building. Well, it might take a while, because sunrise here at South Pole takes several weeks!
umm, how awesome is this food truck? i wish i could have gotten closer and focused in on just a word or two, but the lunchtime crowds were swarming the sidewalk.
i will have to track them down again. their menu looks tasty!
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After a week when temperatures across the UK have hovered above a sweltering 30C/85F, I found myself longing for the chill and fog of early spring, and revisited a shot which I captured at the centre of Richmond Park in early April. On many mornings I'd hoped for calm conditions that would bring heavier fog, and before this particular sunrise the low wind speed and near-freezing temperature near the Pen Ponds created fog so dense that, for a couple of hours, visibility dropped to about 20 metres. As the sun finally crept above the woodland and created various shades of orange and pink on the horizon, I came across the bare branches of an oak tree, and next to it the remains of a broken tree trunk, part of which now lay on the ground. Something about this scene captivated me, so I stopped to capture it.
The image is a blend of seven bracketed exposures, and proved to be a fun editing project because of the contrast between intense foggy light around the sun and deep shadows covering the trees and foreground. I began by blending my exposures using luminosity masks, bringing up visibility of the tree trunks while toning down brightness around the sun. I then refined my own masks in order to select and intensify the fog in the background. This was achieved by duplicating the blue channel in the Channels Panel and using a Levels adjustment to increase the channel's contrast between Darks and Midtones, effectively removing the trees and grass from the selection. After extracting the highlights around the sun using a selection from my Brights luminosity masks, I was left with a selection of just the foggy background, where I blended in my brightest exposures using a combination of linear and reflective gradient masks.
Colour-grading the image was very straightforward, as the mixture of early-morning blues across the landscape and intense warm tones in the sky only needed a little emphasis. Using Colour Balance adjustments with Apply Image as a layer mask, I gave the midtones and shadows a colder finish, and targeted the brighter area around the sun to increase the reds and magentas in the highlights. Setting two low-opacity Colour Lookup adjustments to Soft Light, I then used the Foggy Night preset for the foreground and the Soft Warming preset for the sky.
Using Nik's Colour Efex Pro, I brought out a little of the tree trunks' texture using the Detail Extractor filter, and at the same time softened the detail in the sky using the Sunlight filter, which helped to bring out the hazy glow across the scene when I'd captured it. While I thought that viewers' eyes would gravitate to the sun emerging between the tree's branches, the tree and the trunks among the fog were what drew me to the scene, and I felt it was important to try to emphasise their weathered texture and, ultimately, their "character". There was something hopeful about the colour spreading across the horizon as the sun rose, but at the same time something poignant about a scene that seemed to tell a story of nature's brutality and illustrate how certain things, once broken, can't easily be healed or repaired.
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Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every habitat with the exceptions of air and sea colonization. As of August 2021, 49,623 spider species in 129 families have been recorded by taxonomists. However, there has been dissension within the scientific community as to how all these families should be classified, as evidenced by the over 20 different classifications that have been proposed since 1900.
Anatomically, spiders (as with all arachnids) differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segments are fused into two tagmata, the prosoma, or cephalothorax, and opisthosoma, or abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindrical pedicel (however, as there is currently neither paleontological nor embryological evidence that spiders ever had a separate thorax-like division, there exists an argument against the validity of the term cephalothorax, which means fused cephalon (head) and the thorax. Similarly, arguments can be formed against use of the term abdomen, as the opisthosoma of all spiders contains a heart and respiratory organs, organs atypical of an abdomen). Unlike insects, spiders do not have antennae. In all except the most primitive group, the Mesothelae, spiders have the most centralized nervous systems of all arthropods, as all their ganglia are fused into one mass in the cephalothorax. Unlike most arthropods, spiders have no extensor muscles in their limbs and instead extend them by hydraulic pressure.
Their abdomens bear appendages that have been modified into spinnerets that extrude silk from up to six types of glands. Spider webs vary widely in size, shape and the amount of sticky thread used. It now appears that the spiral orb web may be one of the earliest forms, and spiders that produce tangled cobwebs are more abundant and diverse than orb-weaver spiders. Spider-like arachnids with silk-producing spigots appeared in the Devonian period about 386 million years ago, but these animals apparently lacked spinnerets. True spiders have been found in Carboniferous rocks from 318 to 299 million years ago, and are very similar to the most primitive surviving suborder, the Mesothelae. The main groups of modern spiders, Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, first appeared in the Triassic period, before 200 million years ago.
oh,.. by the way..
for more info on spiders ..
refer to Kyoko Blanchard ...
she's the EXPERT, ❤ ...
The painted stork (mycteria leucocephala) appears to be addressing the spot-billed pelicans (pelecanus philippensis). This scene brought to mind the Speaker, in the House of Commons, calling for better behaviour from MPs. Photographed in Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography" - www.colin-pacitti.com.
It definitely did not take long to get all the CN heritage locos lensed up. M397 completes my collection westbound along the Grand Trunk in Michigan. A 10mph order is ahead at the end of double track in Potterville. That enabled me to take it easy in very unfamiliar territory.
The Forge Abigail Outfit @ Midnight Order.
Rigged For: Legacy / Perky / Lara X / EBody / Waifu
Includes: Corset & Skirt
Hudpack Includes 22 Fabrics and 5 tartans With 9 Metals Over 5 Surfaces on 2 Seperate Items of Clothing to Customize Your Look.
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Boyle Abbey (Irish: Mainistir na Búille) was the first successful foundation in Connacht of the Cistercian order which had opened its first Irish house at Mellifont, County Louth, in 1142. [wikipedia]
Dope+Mercy is releasing for Midnight order!
I am pleased to create a image for their dynamic work this round. I love the harness style and the pants have a interesting cut design to them. Drop on by when the event opens and check them out!
thank you always bby for your patience and trust in my work!
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Dope+Mercy Offcut Outfit @ Midnight Order
Varonis Back Room
Anc fish / goldfish
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The overall design on these has really grown on me since they were first unveiled, and I have to say I'm very much looking forward to next Thursday.
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The Leslie Powell Foundation Gallery....VISTAS artwork by
QU'AINT Collaborative exhibit.....9Jul - 27 Aug 2021
Order in Chaos by Agnes Stadler (Quilt Art)
Here’s the final overview picture of my Jedi Temple Order 66 aka “Knightfall” creation. I built it entirely while home in isolation (I’m all healthy) in under 12 days.
I loosely based it on the old Battlefront 2, and coincidentally I finished it and published the video on the games 15th birthday. I wanted to include the name Knightfall in the base of the build. First I was thinking of doing it in aurebesh (Star Wars language) but then decided to make it in regular english so that more people can read it, but still keep some sci-fi elements to the typography.
One of the main ideas was to include a skyline view of Coruscant trough the windows and I’m quite happy with how that turned out but I could and want to improve on it at some point. The jedi library was a must have and I’m very happy with how that turned out. Same goes for the statues in the build. I found some inspiration in some older online builds and turned them into jedi. I like the overall action and minifig positioning in the build. Some details to point out are the chairs and table, the pattern on the floors as well as the plant pots.
All in all, I’m very happy with the MOC and I think it’s one of my best creations so far. Would love to hear your thoughts on the creation.
I released 2 YouTube video about the MOC: a cinematic showcase and a build timelapse. So PLEASE do me a favor and check those out. Thanks!
This was also my entry into Mandrproductions MOC contest that I ended up winning, so thanks to Ryan for that.
More exciting stuff on the way, stay tuned ;)
@ Midnight Order ~ January 20 - February 20
These sabatons are matching gauntlets I made some time earlier for this event! I think I will continue on this path and complete the armor set over time~
These armored boots have all the same options as the gauntlets mentioned above; 3 plate, 3 chainmail and 2 filigree color options (silver, steel and black) via HUD.
Fits:
• Legacy Male & Female
• Belleza Freya & Jake
• eReborn
• Maitreya
• Kupra
You will need to use your body's alpha HUD options to hide your legs for these! An alpha for Kupra is included but can be used with any of the other bodies for convenience.
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